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From: BobR@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Umoria lockup
Message-ID: <9732@cup.portal.com>
Date: 4 Oct 88 23:05:57 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Several people had reported problems with the version of Umoria which had
been posted to the net.
 
I'm wondering how widespread the problem may, or if these are isolated
instances where the file may have been damaged in spite of the error checking
of ARC...
 
I've had the same problem of the game locking up within the first 5-10 moves
on the town level, about 75% of the time.  The cursor stops flashing, and
the system is completely dead, requiring a total re-boot and re-load of the
game.  As annoying as that is, the problem is compounded by the fact that
Moria erases your "saved" game file, which means you have to make a .BAKup
of the save file every time you play, in case the machine dies *after* deletin
the file..!  This is on a 1Meg machine with *nothing* else in memory..
 
If this is just an isolated case, I may try redownloading the files and trying
again...
 
BobR